WideningGyro

Piranha Bytes Gothic and Gothic 2 are some of the best RPGs ever produced in my view. The atmosphere, the sense of progression and danger, the way every single item and enemy is curated and placed in the world with care and thought, the way the game doesn't hold your hand and characters actually behave like human beings - including the player. All wonderful.

Unfortunately, the graphics were ugly as shit for 2001-02 and the combat is unbelievably janky. A large part of the game's difficulty curve comes from how fiddly and frustrating the combat is. So, it is really hard to recommend.

Red is also a fantastic album!

They have a fun song called Your Racist Friend which is about not tolerating your friend's racist friends, so that would at least suggest that they're OK

That's a super good point, actually. At the risk of committing sacrilege in a thread meant to spark a struggle sesh, that could also be key to finding common ground between the vegan movement and people who aren't ready (for whatever reason) to go full vegan. Tell them that the next best thing is to be positive about veganism anyway - provide vegan options for your vegan friends, talk about how cool it is that they are vegan, speak out when people scoff at vegans etc. I dunno, probably some people think that's a dangerous half measure, but I genuinely think there are a lot of potential allies who are scared away by the "all in" approach to veganism (which I get - once you internalize that killing animals for food/products as murder, it's hard to accept a little murder). Maybe they could, if nothing else, be put to work talking up veganism and vegetarianism to less receptive people - who might be even more inclined to turn out vegan voices anyway.

I was really confused when browsing cheese.com (as you do) and noticing "vegetarian cheese" as an option. That's when I learned that there is technically meat in some cheese.

I remember being, if nothing else, then unsure what to think about the things he was saying (I was a carefree lib in those days, and my racist-radar wasn't as well developed, also knew very little about SA), but once he started spouting vile racist shit about my Muslim countrymen, everything he had said about SA became sus in retrospect.

"Most other white people in South Africa statistically enjoy a much higher standard of living than everyone else thanks to generational wealth accumulated during apartheid"

It's so absurd to me that South Africa is as inequal as it is. How there wasn't a massive campaign of wealth redistribution - by force if necessary - after apartheid fell, but then again admit I don't know the history very well, and I guess it's more complex than that.

I met an older South African guy while traveling a few years back and he seemed cool at first. He then started talking about how "it was basically open season on white people in SA" - that's why he was traveling around central America. Didn't take long for him to start telling me how my country (in Scandinavia) was being destroyed by Muslim immigrants.

participate in collective action against animal exploitation

Does being vegetarian count?

I got banned from r/comics for commenting that Hamas are "terrorists" in the same sense that the native americans were when scalping settlers, or the SA resistance when bombing white policemen.

Yeah, it was one of those blessed moments that make me go "wait, this is reddit, why on earth am I engaging with these losers?" and my mental health is better for it

He may also genuinely be a Burzum fan? I would feel icky listening to it, having read way too much about Varg's garbage opinions, but I do know that musically it is extremely highly regarded.